Cat Warren

What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World (Touchstone) is Cat Warren's first single-authored book. It became a NYT bestseller and won several awards, including being long listed for a PEN/E.O, Wilson Literary Science Writing award. A young readers edition of What the Dog Knows was published by Simon & Schuster for Young Readers in October 2019, and the paperback of that book came out in October of 2020. Cat Warren is a professor at North Carolina State University, where she teaches science journalism, editing, and reporting courses. She lives with her husband, David, and their current German shepherd, Rev, in Durham, North Carolina.

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